Timeline for Why is there never a proof that extending the reals to the complex numbers will not cause contradictions?
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| Aug 11, 2013 at 16:48 | history | edited | Prahlad Vaidyanathan | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 230 characters in body |
| Aug 11, 2013 at 14:42 | comment | added | Artefact2 | It does if the polynom is of degree 2 or 3. (This should be added to the answer.) | |
| Aug 11, 2013 at 10:46 | comment | added | hmakholm left over Monica | Note that having no roots in $\mathbb R$ is not a sufficient condition for being irreducible -- for example $x^4+4$ factors in $\mathbb R[x]$. | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 14:24 | comment | added | Pratyush Sarkar | Very interesting. I have never seen this before.+1 | |
| Aug 10, 2013 at 13:03 | history | answered | Prahlad Vaidyanathan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |